Hi all,
I'm having an issue that I've been trying to solve with my single skin garage, which is attached to the house. Outside is rendered with K-rend, single skin blockwork.
Basically we've been getting a large amount of water ingress through what appears to be the bricks nearest the garage personnel door. It's beginning to wash away the render, as you can probably see in the images below.
Typically it looks something like this after any major rain:
I've had some landscapers in and they have dug a trench around the garage to 4 brick courses depth beneath these two layers of brick and then backfilled with clean stones and larger pebbles. Up until a few days ago, there was either patio or dirt touching the brickwork. The exterior looks like this:
What should my next steps be? I've considered that the door / door frame might be a source of ingress, and I suppose the water could also be coming up through the slab.
I don't want it to be perfectly weatherproof, as at the wide garage door end, there is occasionally some water pooling where the door is, but it seems to me that if this keeps happening I'm going to have some problems long-term. It's also attached to the house, so I'm a bit worried about leaving it in a perpetually-wet state.
I'm having an issue that I've been trying to solve with my single skin garage, which is attached to the house. Outside is rendered with K-rend, single skin blockwork.
Basically we've been getting a large amount of water ingress through what appears to be the bricks nearest the garage personnel door. It's beginning to wash away the render, as you can probably see in the images below.
Typically it looks something like this after any major rain:
I've had some landscapers in and they have dug a trench around the garage to 4 brick courses depth beneath these two layers of brick and then backfilled with clean stones and larger pebbles. Up until a few days ago, there was either patio or dirt touching the brickwork. The exterior looks like this:
What should my next steps be? I've considered that the door / door frame might be a source of ingress, and I suppose the water could also be coming up through the slab.
I don't want it to be perfectly weatherproof, as at the wide garage door end, there is occasionally some water pooling where the door is, but it seems to me that if this keeps happening I'm going to have some problems long-term. It's also attached to the house, so I'm a bit worried about leaving it in a perpetually-wet state.
